Shock Wave

Patch 2.4

Blizzard wrote:

Shock Wave

• Maul synergy increased from 5% to 10%

Patch 2.6 notes:

Blizzard wrote:

Fixed an underlying issue that caused the Druid's Shockwave skill to do an unintended amount of damage.

Monsters can be stunned for a maximum of 10 seconds, so it's not necessary to put points in

Shock Wave beyond attaining the ten-second

Stun.

Shockwave has a positively absurd [1+(slvl*0.6)] second

Stun duration. This achieves the maximum

Stun duration of 10 seconds at slvl 15. Between its long duration and huge area of effect,

Shock Wave is easily the game's most effective crowd control effect short of AI-altering effects such as

Confuse.

Stunning effects are subject to neither difficulty penalties nor diminishing returns. However, if another stunning effect is applied after

Shock Wave, it will overwrite the previous stunning effect with the new effect's full duration (even if that duration is shorter). Furthermore, Champion, Unique, and Super Unique monsters will only be affected by a stunning effect 10% of the time, though they will suffer the full duration of that effect if affected.

Boss monsters are immune to stunning effects such as

Shock Wave.